Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Pre-Seed venture fund investing in technology companies that reduce friction at scale.

May 2017 – May 2020 · 3 yrs

• Raised two rounds of financing, grew revenue from zero to >$6m/year in two years.

Mar 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

• My brother and I started a non-profit to enable e-commerce companies to seamlessly add reforestation as a product to their offerings.

Sep 2009 – Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Leading technology provider of Group Buying and social commerce infrastructure. The only patent protected platform. Over 150 deployments including NBC, Univision, Fox, Hearst, Microsoft. Negotiated strategic partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and others. Sold to nCrowd in April 2013

Jul 2008 – Apr 2013 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Local market place software solutions including kashless.org better classifieds and tippr.com white label group commerce. Company pivoted to focus on Tippr. Tippr sold to nCrowd April 2013. Kashless, Inc. soon after the sale.

Jan 2006 – Present · 20 yrs 3 mos · Seattle

• The first angel group in the US to focus exclusively on clean tech and sustainability. Currently very active.

May 2005 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Tried saving the world by creating renewable fuels that reduce our dependence on petroleum. Initially invested in the company, then joined as CEO as it became clear the company really was going to transform the economics of biodiesel and oil was going to go crazy. Raised over $250M in financing including $112M in project financing and working capital. Built a 5 M gallon proof of concept refinery, then a 100M production scale. Built pipeline of three more projects (China, Argentina, Hawaii), but financial markets closed in 2008. Company currently profitable and growing.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2010 · 8 yrs · Bellevue, WA

• Generation of deal flow, working with entrepreneurs to vet business ideas, doing investments, sitting on the board to help grow the company.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2015 · 15 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading messaging security company protecting over 2 billion subscribers around the world. Lead the analysis of anti-spam market for Ignition Partners leading to the investment in Cloudmark.

Aug 1997 – Dec 2000 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• I started Loudeye (formerly encoding.com) with the vision that digital audio and video would become an every day part of most people's lives. Remember, this was 1997 when the standard internet connection was 14.4, you had to buy a sound and video card separate, Microsoft had no music player, Real had only audio technologies, Quicktime was for CD only and no-one had ever heard of MP3. Well I was early, but right. Started with 3 people, left the company three years later with 450 employees and $110M in the bank. Loudeye became the leading infrastructure provider for digital audio and video businesses eventually selling to Nokia in 2006

Jan 1996 – Present · 30 yrs 3 mos · Seattle

• Investment holding company. Occasional Mid market office and residential developer. Holding company for private equity and angel investments. Over 200 early-stage start-up investments and over a dozen LP interests in top tier Venture Funds.

Sep 1991 – Aug 1997 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• International IT organization. First project was to convince Microsoft Management that they could not run their company's back-office on OS/2 and PC applications. That was hard for a culture of dog food eaters. Helped set up systems to support Eastern European offices including stints in Moscow, Sweden, England, Ireland, Prague, a year in Italy and two years in Munich. Designed the first accounting and license tracking system for Select and MOLP, the first iterations of enterprise volume licensing. Very fun years, great people.

Sep 1987 – Sep 1991 · 4 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

• Can you program Cobol or RPG 400? Well I was really good at it. Even have a patent related to AS/400 screen navigation. Great job just out of school because they work you like a dog and you learn fast in a couple different industries. Microsoft hired Andersen to figure out their international back office systems and I was one of the first three Andersen Consultants out to Microsoft. I remember the first meeting we showed up in out suits and ties and the Msft guys freaked out. Had to get a special release from AC management in Chicago to not wear suits, the first such waiver ever given. Do you believe that companies used to have dress codes?? Me either.